The Criminal Court has found Watana Pumret, a retired engineer, guilty of planting the bomb that exploded at Phramongkutklao Hospital in May. The former electricity generating authority (Egat) employee was sentenced to four years in prison in September for illegally making and possessing explosives and illegally possessing black powder. The 62-year-old confessed to masterminding the explosion that wounded 21 people and caused damage worth over one million baht at the military-run hospital. In its ruling on Wednesday, the court convicted him on four charges - attempted murder, planting a bomb, causing serious damage and possessing explosives in public. Watana is also suspected of involvement in other bombings between 2007 and 2017, mainly in Bangkok.

Source: Bangkok Post December 06, 2017 06:30 UTC